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The almanac

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008.

Goode to be PBS's 'Contemporary' host

BOSTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- British actor Matthew Goode has been named host of the premiere season of "Masterpiece Contemporary," PBS said Wednesday.

Dentist gets prison for body parts scheme

NEW YORK, June 28 (UPI) -- A dentist was sentenced Friday to 18 to 54 years in a New York prison for orchestrating a scheme to sell human tissue and body parts from funeral homes.

Guilty plea from seller of body parts

NEW YORK, March 19 (UPI) -- A New Jersey dentist has pleaded guilty to heading a multimillion-dollar operation that sold body parts plundered from funeral homes in New York.

Tony Blair to teach at Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 7 (UPI) -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will teach at Yale University, the Ivy League school announced Friday.

Thompson Files: Loss of will on Iraq

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- If this generation of Americans is to act responsibly, it cannot walk away from what it has wrought in Iraq, nor can it ignore the character of the adversary that so bedevils it there.

The Almanac

UPI almanac for Monday, Feb. 20, 2006.

Alistair Cooke's daughter speaks out

LONDON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The daughter of legendary British broadcaster Alistair Cooke says more needs to be known about global trafficking in body parts such as happened to her father.

Stolen bones implanted in British patients

LONDON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Patients of the British National Health Service have reportedly been implanted with possibly contaminated bone from a batch stolen from the United States.